The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-06-30
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Of flOIcIS.
Twenty different states now observe
Arbor day.
Gladstone is the name of new town
in California.
The Benedictine monastery of Ponti-
da is soon to be sold at auction.
There are eighteen thousand female
students in the colleges of this country.
A three hundred pound turtle was
recently captured near st. Augustine,
Fla.
There are seven persons in the town
of Genesee Falls, N. Y, who are over
SO years old.
One Montana stock-raiser lost 20, 900
head of cattle, last winter, out of
herd of $4,000.
Sir John Dean Paul, Baronet, is earn
ing his living as a photographer In
Chelsea, London.
Dion Boucicault has an ''r" in his
name. but he hasn't written it Bour.
cicault for many years.
A bright young niece of Maria
Mitchell of Vassar is one the proof
readers on the new Century dictionary.
Nine. Nilsseon, under the terms OF
her marriage with Count Miranda,
retains absolute control of all her
fortune.
A New York sea captain has just sued
his third wife to obtain possession OF
-.his second wife's shawl, nightgown,
and $15 in cash."
Baron Won Faber, the owner of the
far famed Faber pencil factory at Nur
harn hos calabrafad tha 19h ami.
versary of its founding.
Mayor Hewitt, of New York, dates his
prosperity from the time he was made
tutor to Peter Coopers daughter whom
he afterward married.
Miss Florence Croft is the American
woman who has been admitted to
the School of Oriental Languages
(Arabic and Persian) in Paris.
A Pennsylvania capitalist has re-
Gently purchased fifty-seven thousand
acres of land in the northwest portion
of Haskell county, Texas, for grazing
purposes.
A party of young brutes at Beliville,
Can, compelled reformed drunkard
to drink liquor; his old appetite over
powered him, he was arrested, and
died very soon after recovering from
his debauch.
Albert T. de Goicouria is the athlete
of the New York Stock Exchange. He
is a Cuban by birth. He married
the youngest daughter of the late
William Wall, once Mayor of Williams
burg. She is an aunt of the well-known
Berry Wall.
Hotel and sleeping-car porters are
generally short-lIved people, as the
former die of diseases of the heart pro-
duced by the strain of lifting heavy
trunks, and the latter of enlargement
of the gall caused by over-exercise with
n whisk broom.
A Touring mill in Oregon pays an
adjoining sawmill $50 day for its
sawdust, which it uses for fuel in its
big furnaces. Their fuel cost them
$1,000 day before they found that they
could burn what most Western saw
mills throw away.
1t is printed for a fact in Kennebec,
Me-, that citizen of that town bought
a pooketful of peanuts, and was in the
act of eating them, when on cracking
one a tiny, full-blown pink rose, which
filled the interior of the shell, appeared,
fresh and unfaded.
Bishop William Taylor, whose self.
supporting missions on the Congo
attract great attention, is a splendid.
looking man, with piercing eyes and
very bright countenance. His beard is
of silky texture and is long and spread
ing and of pure white.
The Massachusetts board of health
recently analyzed a number of tenn
perance drinks and discovered that
not one of them was free from alcohol
One contained 443 of the intoxicant
several 40 per cent, and the others
more than 20 per cent
Ten per cent of the counties in
Dakota now have ladies rs County
Superintendents of Schools, and they
average better than the men in point of
ability and application to their duties.
1t is believed that this position will
soon be generally conceded to ladies in
Dakota.
Vitrified stove-piping is now univer-
sally used for drainage purposes both
north and south. In the south in small
villages and towns they take the place
of pump logs, whose remains are yet
exhumed occasionally from the debris
of the underground past in the city of
Richmond.
Apriest in Salt Lake City came upon
a girl of his congregation just as
her sweetheart was kissing her good
night in front of her mistress gate.
He boxed the girls ears, rang the bell,
and, when the mistress appeared gave
q short and instructive lecture on the
duties of women in her station in
life.
Aunt Mary Francis. little colored
woman of New Harmony, Ind, is said
to be the Oldest person in Posey
County. She was born in Virginia 1O4
years ago. Though shriveled up until
she looks like a dwarf, she is bright
and active. She has lost but one tooth,
and that by an accident fifty-five years
ago.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont contem-
plates spending the summer in the
West for the purpose of writing an ac-
curate history of the life of Kit Carson,
the famous scout. pathfinder, explorer
Gen. Fremont will accompany her It
was Kit Carson who piloted Gen. Ere.
mont across the Rocky Mountains on
his first exploration.
Lord Lansdowne, Governor-General
OF Canada, receives salary of $50, 600
year, besides free quarters and
numerous perquisites. Yet he is ex-
tremely mercenary, demanding every
dollar due him, and the entertainments
at the government House bear evidence
of the strictest economy in every
matter of detail.
Lucy Larcom and Whittier have a
good deal of liking for each others
society, and it happens now and then
that the Quaker poet leaves his retreat
at Oak Knoll, Danvers, Mass, where
he spends more of his time of late
years than at Amesbury, to make one
of his rare trips to the village, meet
ing Miss Larcom at the house of a
common friend.
Eight years ago there were five
thousand unmarked soldiers graves in
Ohio. There are great many still,
but gradually they are being appro.
priately marked and decorated, and il
will not be long before Ohio will have
the satisfaction of claiming that she is
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